How to meditate?

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Hello yall, I’m a new catholic, I have 3 children under 5 and married. I’m reading Diary of saint faustina and it’s very moving to say the least! I deeply want to know how to meditate. The only meditation I’ve ever seen was those yoga type meditations🧘‍♀️ huummmmmmmmm.

I’m not a very educated person so if we can keep it lamens terms, that would be appreciated. I need some serious guidance on how can I achieve proper meditation for reparations and deep consolation to the Lord our God.
 
Read your bible, and meditate on the Word.

Fill up your mind with what’s writen, and ponder on it night & day.

Don’t go emptying your mind without any bible reading, because something else may come in, and plant bad seeds

Reading the saints isn’t the same as reading bible. The saints are humans. Focus on the word of God, is better meditation.

For a start, please read Psalms 119. This Psalm will tell you how to meditate.
 
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Lectio Divina: tried and true.


But the video leaves out silence.

Envy opportunity you have, just sit in silence and talks to God but also be silent witching to listen and be attentive, watch and wait.
 
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These articles are false and confused New Age Centering with Centering Prayer as taught in the Catholic Church

Centering Prayer is actually Prayer of Quiet or Quiet Prayer, which is opening to Contemplation.

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12608b.htm

Please stop spreading misinformation about a rich form of prayer which has been part of the Church going back to the 4th Century

Jim
 
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I am sorry to disappoint but Prayer of Quiet isn’t the same as Centering prayer.

Where they are the same, can you show me?

I am not spreading false infomations, you don’t have to feel attacked. When you accuse someone of spreading misinformations you should point what is that wrong.
Those two things aren’t the same at all. You are the one who posted pamhlet about centering prayer and you suggest it as christian meditation.
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This is what I’ve been doing for over 35 years

contemplativeoutreach.org

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Message me if you have any questions.

God Bless
Jim
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Centering prayer isn’t compatible with christianity
 
You’re spreading misinformation and this has been done umpteen times in this forum over the past decade or more. Centering Prayer even got banned from CAF until it was learned that what CP was, was not being accurately reported by the critics, but they were attacking something entirely different, which they thought was CP.

I’ve been doing Centering Prayer for over 35 years and it is very Catholic

I knew someone would like yourself would do this in CAF

It’s par for the course when someone lacks understanding about Contemplative Prayer.
 
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I’m not going to argue about this anymore

The OP will have to pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance
 
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I’m TERRIBLE at meditation in prayer. My good SD recommend Fr Phillipe’s “Time For God”. It is the best book on the topic that I have read. I’m working on it 🙂
 
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I’m not a very educated person so if we can keep it lamens terms, that would be appreciated. I need some serious guidance on how can I achieve proper meditation for reparations and deep consolation to the Lord our God.
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Meditation is not complicated at all. It’s just focusing your mind on a certain subject. The key is to do it in solitude or someplace quite like Adoration, and to focus on God, a favorite scripture passage, or something like that. With 3 kids under 5, finding quite time might be your biggest challenge.

For example the Rosary is a meditation prayer. The focus is on the “mysteries”, one for each ten Hail Marys. Takes about 20 minutes to contemplate 5 events of Jesus’ life.

The key is to focus on something ‘holy’ for lack of a better term. One good way to focus on the events of the life of Jesus is to imagine that you are there ‘in the crowd’ or even put yourself in Jesus’ shoes to contemplate his suffering or joy. Again, it’s easy but it just takes time and focus.
 
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The rosary is not really a meditation. One’s mind is busy repeating the same prayer over and over, not really meditating on the mysteries.Busy mind doesn’t listen to the Holy Spirit.

Besides, Jesus said, " When you pray, don’t pray very long prayers that is repeated over and over…"

Reading one passage of the bible and thinking about it when doing chores is much easier, yet it feeds your soul. The Holy Spirit will from time to time suddenly speaking to you through those passages, even when you are watching a documentary or cleaning up. It is meditating the word of God that feeds our soul.

This is not my words. I learn this from Psalms 119. And I testify to this: compare to praying the rosary ( I have prayed the rosary long time ago), reading the bible and pondering it in daily life, is like night and day. The night is dark, and day is bright. It’s like in the most dry dessert where everything dry and die, as compared to laying on the green pasture besides the clear water.
 
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The rosary is not really a meditation. One’s mind is busy repeating the same prayer over and over, not really meditating on the mysteries.
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The Rosary is a meditative prayer. The words of the prayers are not the focus of the Rosary. The prayers should be known and said ‘second nature’. It would be more effective for meditation to have memorized the Hail Mary.
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Busy mind doesn’t listen to the Holy Spirit.
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During the Rosary the mind is supposed to be contemplating (meditating) on the events of Jesus’ life.
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Besides, Jesus said, " When you pray, don’t pray very long prayers that is repeated over and over…"
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This ^ has nothing to do with the Rosary. It’s also a Protestant talking point against the Rosary.
 
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For some people, the Rosary is meditative. For others it falls in the formal prayer category. Neither are wrong.
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and deep consolation to the Lord our God.
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Fr Dubay’s book “Deep Conversion: Deep Prayer”
 
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No the question was not “How to contemplate?”

The next step.
 
The Rosary is a good start in learning deeper prayer. It is like going through the mysteries of Our Lord’s Life while holding the hand of Our Lady, who knew Him so well.

We can think of each mystery with our imagination, and the Hail Mary prayers are like the music of our Lady’s presence with us.
 
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